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Author Archives: ILRI Communications
Capacity strengthening / CapDev / Gender / Gender news / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / PIL / Women
Designing for gender equality
Helping productivity through gender equality. Just one of the eleven positive outcomes which can arise through the establishment of a more equal society. Continue reading
Smallholder livestock farming is a mainstay of the poor
Livestock production employs more than 1.3 billion people and livestock keeping is a mainstay of the livelihoods of some 600 million poor farmers in the developing world. Increasing demand for meat, milk and eggs in poor countries, particularly in India, China and other emerging economies, is driving economic growth. Making smallholder dairy production more competitive … Continue reading
Why animals matter to human health and nutrition
Human, livestock and environmental health are inextricably linked, Sixty-one per cent of all diseases are ‘zoonotic’ –that is, transmissible between animals and humans. Continue reading
Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change
For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably Continue reading
Mixed crop-and-livestock farmers can feed the growing world
Mixed crop-and-livestock farms will, more than the traditional breadbaskets and rice bowls of the past, feed the developing world over the next few decades Continue reading
Empirical evidence on gender differences in non-land agricultural inputs, technology, and services
This IFPRI report reviews empirical literature on gender differences in use, access, and adoption of nonland agricultural inputs in developing countries. It focuses on four key areas: (1) technological resources, (2) natural resources, (3) human resources, and (4) social and political capital. Download the report Continue reading
Agriculture / ILRI / Livestock / Markets / Women
AgriGender report available
A workshop entitled Gender and market-oriented agriculture: From research to practice (AgriGender 2011) was organized by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the IPMS project from 31 January to 2 February 2011 in Addis Ababa to share the experiences of integrating gender in initiatives promoting market-oriented agriculture. Download the report Continue reading
Closing the gender gap in agriculture
If women in rural areas had the same access to land, technology, financial services, education and markets as men, agricultural production could be increased and the number of hungry people reduced by 100-150 million, FAO said yesterday in its 2010-11 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report. Read the news release This 4 … Continue reading
Gender in rural Africa: women on the brink of change
ILRI’s Jemimah Njuki was today profiled by the CGIAR ICT-KM Program in its “Growing Talents: Youth in Agriculture” series of interviews. Jemimah Njuki didn’t set out to make gender issues the focus of her life’s work. She came across her passion in life quite by accident. While working as a livestock scientist in her native … Continue reading
